David Roosevelt

About David Roosevelt

Finance, Venture Capital, Banking, & Fintech - Defense Contracting & Exporting - Commercial Real Estate (CRE), Civil Engineering, & Construction Management An experienced executive, consultant, banking, and financial services professional with years of experience in the commercialization and financing of new technologies. David also successfully prosecuted trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Starting out as a consultant working for the United Nations and then the United States federal government, our team focused on the technology that is the predecessor to what is now known commercially as Cloud technology. By researching, curating, and presenting international economic and financial analysis of leading world economies at macro and micro economic scales, I provided comprehensive all source deliverables to executive leadership to inform strategic decision making and timely resource allocation. As Founder of the start-up, Kandu Global (KG), a Microsoft Bizspark Graduate. Kandu Global is a Dubai Future Accelerator Finalist, a JPMORGAN CHASE Entrepreneur Scholar Winner, and 1st Place finisher in the Cornell Emerging Markets Institute Ideation Workshop. KG is an exporter of *spacecraft & related items, aerospace tech & systems, heavy equipment systems, and commercial goods with inventory access to over one million products, services, and software to facilitate customers\' project orders and needs. KG is currently an e-wallet remittance solution facilitated by a dynamic cryptocurrency exchange, KanduPay. David is an alumnus of Alumni Ventures VC Fellowship at Triphammer Ventures. He has travelled to over seventy-five countries and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Government from The Ohio State University (B.A.), and International Relations from St. John\'s University Rome, Italy Graduate Campus (M.A.), focused on International Political Economy with the certificate of International Law & Diplomacy. A Graduate Entry LLB candidate at the University College London (UofL) and earned an Executive MBA at Cornell University, SC Johnson Graduate School of Management and is currently Master of Science candidate in Civil Engineering at Columbia University\'s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.*Advocate for neurodiversity awareness and non-linear career pathing.*Enjoys diverse, collaborative, entrepreneurial settings and working cross-functionally to bring new ideas to life.

Experience

1. Chairman, Founder, CEO

   Kandu Global Technologies, Inc.

   Jan 2019 — Present

Education

• Columbia University

  Master of Science - MS

  2023 — 2024

• Palomar College

  Associate of Arts - AA

• Cornell University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA '22 (3.82 GPA)

  2020 — 2022

• The Ohio State University

  BA

• St. John's University Rome Campus Graduate Programs

  MA

• Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management

  Master of Business Administration - MBA '22 (3.82 GPA)

  2020 — 2022